Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Airline deregulation

[Rob Schaap]

G'day Ken,

> Deregulation surely does not minimize transportation costs for smaller communities 
>and to distant communities. For them deregulation is often a disaster. Before 
>deregulation many smaller cities had to be served as the price airlines had to pay 
>for lucrative routes. Now these cities have to beg airlines to serve them and even 
>when they are served fares are high, and there is no competition at all.<

Same with broadband IT links.  Which makes me wonder if we're not talking
about something close enough to a network to ask Brad if the DeLong Law of
diminishing returns to and from minor nodes in networks (if I've got it right)
might not be relevant to airline policy debates.

Waddyareckon, Brad?

Cheers,
Rob.